A New Broom Sweeps Clean, #3 of 4

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Courtesy of the Megacollector, from Terrytoons artist Jim Tyer.

On Tuesday, the final chapter.

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A New Broom Sweeps Clean, #2 of 4

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More of the tale of the broom and its new master, courtesy of Jim Tyer and the Megacollector.

Part 1 is here. (More to come ...)

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A New Broom Sweeps Clean, #1 of 4

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Courtesy of the Megacollector, a change of pace from all-Disney-all-the-time. Storyboards for an unproduced late-1950s Terrytoons project, "A New Broom Sweeps Clean", from master cartoon artist Jim Tyer (1904-1976).

Cartoon Brew and the BBC website have more on Tyer.

Mega informs us that these large story panels were part of an elaborate pitch that, sadly, never became a special or series. Mr. Tyer, noted for his squash, stretch and not-quite-on-model animation, came to Terrytoons in 1946.

Working for a variety of tv animation houses in the 1960s, Mr. Tyer finished his career working on Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat, passing away in 1976. (More to come ...)

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Happy Mickey

Neither we nor the Megacollector have figured out for which cartoon Fred Moore drew this Mickey Mouse cycle, but given the style it was obviously late-1940s to early 1950s, probably not too long before Moore's unfortunate demise in 1952.

It should not surprise you to learn that these are © Disney.

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Three little pigs, six little poses ...

... courtesy of the Megacollector and master animator Fred Moore, © Walt Disney Pictures.

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We're thinking these come from The Three Little Wolves and not the earlier short. But Mega didn't tell us, and we neglected to ask.

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Fred's Dopey

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Above, an animation rough of Dopey as drawn by Fred Moore for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Below the fold, a character model sheet. Both courtesy of the Megacollector; both © Walt Disney Company.

(Mr. Mega supplied TAG blog with lots of Fred stuff, and so we continue to share it. The above pieces come from Vault 4-1235, if you're keeping track.)

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Even Moore of Freddie's girls

Some beauties from the Megacollector's megacollection of Fred Moore originals.

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Three Lantz stars

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Courtesy of the Megacollector, here's a bit of comic book art by Dick Hall of Charlie Chicken, Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker of the Walter Lantz 'toon tribe.

Dick Hall worked as an animator, character designer, and comic book artist for half a century. (He was fired by Disney in 1931 when Walt found out he was looking for another job.) Much later, Mr. Hall drew Disney comic book art.

Charlie Chicken made his last screen appearance in 1943's "Meatless Tuesday", which, along with the Woody design, pegs this as being from the 1940s. Mr. Mega informs us this artwork was created in 1947.

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More Moore From MegaCollector

Mr. Mega has graciously consented to share more of his Fred Moore collection ....(from Vault 15-837).

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This offering is from the mid 1940s, one of Fred's patented "girls." ...

And these animation roughs come from some of the last professional work that Fred Moore did: The mermaids in Peter Pan.

Fred Moore came to the Disney Hyperion Studio as a fresh-faced 19-year-old artist who was mostly self-taught. From the beginning to the end of the 1930s, he was the studio's premiere animator, pushing the art-form out of the "rubber hose" era into the "Disney style" of movie cartooning we know and love today.

Fred passed away on November 25, 1952 from injuries sustained in a car accident.

(Disney veteran Ward Kimball remembers Fred here. And Fred's mermaid drawings, being works-for-hire at Walt Disney Productions way back when, are copyrighted by the Disney Co.)

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The MegaCollector's Fred Moore Girls

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MegaCollector emerges from winter hibernation to extract artwork from vault #453. This time it's a Fred Moore art piece from the mid-1940s, a tad wrinkled but still full of color and lilting images ...

Mr. Moore, for those unversed in the history of animation, was Walt Disney's premiere animator in the 1930, bringing to life the three little pigs and seven dwarfs, among many other Disney characters.

More from the Megacollector's megacollection.

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Farewell, Jack: part 7

Our last post of the MegaCollector's offerings of artwork from Disney artists wishing a fond farewell to Jack Fergus, includes an entry from a longtime Disney veteran ... and another from someone whose identity has us stumped.

Below, from the late Art Stevens:

This last one is just about my favorite of the bunch and also the favorite of the Megacollector. It's signed "Effingham Howard Warner IV" (or maybe "Wagner"), but we have no record of any member by that name or anything close to it. So it's probably an in-joke made-up moniker ... anyway, we leave you with the mystery: who's the artist?

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Farewell, Jack: part 6

The penultimate post in our collection of Jack Fergus's going-away presents, courtesy of the Mega Collector.

below, Hank Porter ...

... and Rudy Cataldi.

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Farewell, Jack: part 5

Above from artist Bill Higgins.

Floyd Norman calls Jack Fergus a "gentle giant". When Fergus left Disney's feature department to work with Blaine Gibson in Imagineering, he and Gibson worked on a huge mermaid sculpture for Disneyland. When the moving crew dropped the sculpture and shattered it, Gibson and Fergus laughed it off: "We never liked it anyway". (from Jim Hill Media)

More from the book his fellow assistants presented Fergus when he left Feature Animation. Below, Al White's self-portrait next to Bing Crosby.

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Farewell, Jack: part 4

Above, Ed Aardal's contribution to the copy of the Fantasia book that was presented to to Jack Fergus. Courtesy of the Megacollector.

Illustration below by Dave Detiege.

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